Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-17
ossmodeldb: The “Will It Fit?” Model Memory Database
A searchable database that calculates whether locally runnable open-weight AI models fit a given GPU, VRAM budget, and context length.
Why it surfacedossmodeldb replaces hand-wavy memory estimates with summed file bytes and per-layer KV-cache calculations, while clearly labeling benchmarked, predicted, and manufacturer-supplied figures. Its reported index—2,388 base models, 67,442 quantizations, and 1,356.5 TB of model files—turns a recurring local-AI guessing game into a concrete research tool.
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Monica’s Calendar of Flowers
August 17’s newborn domains include a calendar that spreads flowers for Monica across the months after JP’s death, 17 years of a master mariner’s logbooks, the seconds between a modem connection and the first web request, and an Indian bus cabin carrying 632 songs.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-17 Domain Arrivals issue.